Wild Wacky Summer - Get Involved with HFHWC

Like many organizations and companies, save snow shovel manufacturing companies, summer is a hectic time of year for Habitat for Humanity; especially our affiliate in Wellington County.

So, what's going on with us?

Let's start with Women Build. The project is off to a furious start. We've been documenting a lot of it on our Facebook Fan Page. The photos our Women Builders are posting to our page are awesome! We are also encouraging our Women Builders to check-in (when you're actually on site, don't be cheeky) with Facebook Places and/or Four Square, you never know what we may reward your due diligence with!

Building a house doesn't just require hammering nails and drilling in screws, it also requires funding the project. Women Build have done a great job fundraising for the project and continue to hit the pavement in fundraising efforts. Did you know it costs us, up to $180,000 to build a home? Women Build continues their fundraising and that includes a Family BBQ coming up on Sunday June 26th. A fun, ongoing fundraiser is our Flamingo Flocking that allows ANYONE to "Flock" their friend, neighbour, colleague and/or co-worker. $25 will get you the ultimate gag to your "victim" (for lack of a better word), several Flamingos spread across his/her/their lawn. Check out this pic!

Are other build of the summer of 2011 will fall in the late stages of summer as we kick of the Whirlpool Canada build at 28 Huron St.. This is a semi-detached home that will house two deserving families in the eventual goal of eliminating poverty in the Royal City.

Our Golf tournament is near the tail-end of the summer as well. This will be our 5th tournament at beautiful Cutten Fields. Those that participate love it! Register here. Sponsor here.

The Buy a Hammer, Build Our Community campaign is currently running at your local Home Depot at 63 Woodlawn Rd. W, until July 3rd. $2 will allow you to buy a "Paper Hammer" and support Habitat Wellington County. We appreciate that support and want you to tweet your generous contribution! The Home Depot Canada Foundation and The Home Depot Guelph Store are extremely supportive of our home building programs and we want to thank them for that. If you see Store Manager, Sheila, tell her Luke said "Keep On, Keepin On!"

Finally, The ReStore continues to be HFHWC's biggest fundraiser. The ReStore concept is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2011 and the Guelph ReStore certainly held a great sale event in honour of the landmark. Have you seen pictures? Videos? Check them out! Don't forget about the last Wednesday of the month sale... I think everyone in town knows the last Wednesday of the month is our 50% off sale. The lineup around the building at 9am would indicate so. If you forget, I'm sure we'll provide countless reminders.

Definitely, we have a busy summer! So you want to get involved?
How so? Volunteering? Women Build? Adopt-A-Day/Week? Truck Sponsorship? Donate?

The truth is, not only do we WANT your help, we NEED your help. We value this community and the people that live in the Royal City. After all, MacLean's did call Guelph the most caring city in 2008. Without volunteers, donors and supporters, we cannot build homes for deserving families, and that's why we do what we do!